Generation -4  —  Family 3

Samuel Wilkinson

Jane Williams

Generation -5  —  Family

unknown

unknown

James W. Wilkinson

Elizabeth B. Mason

Samuel M. Wilkinson

Mariana Hernandez

Generation -3  —  Family

Carolina Valenzuela

Generation -3  —  Family

William Henry Harrison Wilkinson

Anna M. Holbrook

Isabella N. Wilkinson

Edward W. Wilkinson

Mary Zimmerman

Generation -3  —  Family 3

Cecelia Emma Wilkinson

William B. Wright

Generation -3  —  Family

Annie E. Wilkinson

Clara B. Wilkinson

William Payne

Generation -3  —  Family

Biographical Facts

James W. Wilkinson

born:

January 23, 1800

Lexington, Kentucky

died:

April 26, 1862

Mansfield, Ohio

Elizabeth B. Mason

born:

1817

Pennsylvania

died:

November 3, 1880

[doc]           Monroeville, Ohio

 

married:

November 10, 1836

Hamilton, Ohio

Samuel Wilkinson

born:

February 14, 1767

Bradford, Yorkshire, England

died:

August 13, 1842

Richland county, Ohio

Jane Williams

born:

1774

Mold, Flintshire, Wales

died:

June 27, 1854

Mansfield, Ohio

 

married:

September 4, 1799

Fayette county, Kentucky

Samuel M. Wilkinson

born:

December 25, 1837

Cincinnati, Ohio

died:

July 4, 1900

[doc]               Oberlin, Ohio

Marianna Hernandez

born:

c. 1845

Mexico

died:

 

 

 

married:

c. 1863

[doc]                    Mexico

Carolina Valenzuela

born:

c. 1855

Guanacevi, Durango, Mexico

died:

June 26, 1880

[doc]    Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico

 

married:

c. 1874

[doc]    Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico

William Henry Harrison Wilkinson

born:

October 6, 1840

Richland county, Ohio

died:

March 16, 1914

[doc]               Mansfield, Ohio

Anna M. Holbrook

born:

 

 

died:

 

 

 

married:

September 19, 1878

[doc]               Newport, Kentucky

Isabella N. Wilkinson

born:

1842

Richland county, Ohio

died:

December 30, 1906

[doc]             Oberlin, Ohio

Edward W. Wilkinson

born:

February 3, 1846

Mansfield, Ohio

died:

January 24, 1918

Mansfield, Ohio

Mary Zimmerman

born:

April 18, 1842

Ohio

died:

May 3, 1917

Mansfield, Ohio

 

married:

October 8, 1867

Mansfield, Ohio

Cecelia Emma Wilkinson

born:

1848

Richland county, Ohio

died:

June 29, 1892

[doc]             Cleveland, Ohio

William B. Wright

born:

1845

Ohio

died:

 

 

 

married:

January 1, 1869

[doc]             Mansfield, Ohio

Annie E. Wilkinson

born:

1853

Richland county, Ohio

died:

July 22, 1871

Mansfield, Ohio

Clara B. Wilkinson

born:

1858

Richland county, Ohio

died:

 

 

William Payne

born:

 

 

died:

 

 

 

married:

 

 

Documentation

Samuel M. Wilkinson’s Marriages

There is no documentation of Samuel marrying either Mariana or Carolina.  The evidence seems to suggest that while Samuel fathered four children with Mariana, he was never married to her.  By all accounts, it appears that Samuel did marry Carolina, as she is always referred to as Samuel’s wife, and he brought the three children they had together back to Ohio after her death.  Samuel’s will leaves everything to his three children by Carolina, with no mention of any other children or heirs.

Wright — Wilkinson Wedding

Mansfield Herald, January 6, 1869

Marriages:

WRIGHT — WILKINSON — At the residence of the bride’s mother, on Friday, January 1st, 1869, by Rev. S. A. Collins, Mr. Will B. Wright and Miss Celia Wilkinson, all of this city.

Wilkinson — Holbrook Wedding

Monroeville Spectator, September 26, 1878

Marriages:

WILKINSON — HOLBROOK — At the residence of the bride’s parents, Newport, Kentucky, on Thursday, Sept. 19, 1878, Mr. W. H. Wilkinson, editor of the Monroeville Spectator, to Miss Anna M. Holbrook.

Monroeville Spectator, January 4, 1879

Principal Events in the History of Monroeville and Vicinity, during the year 1878.

September — The editor of the Spectator goes to Chicago to attend the Exposition; meets a young lady there, and marries her in four days thereafter.


[It appears that this marriage did not last very long.  The 1880 census does not list Anna as living in William’s household, and his marital status is listed as single.  William’s obituary does not mention a wife or any children.]

Carolina Valenzuela Obituary

Monroeville Spectator, July 22, 1880

Death of Mrs. Samuel M. Wilkinson.

From a letter addressed to us, and dated June 26th, we learn the painful intelligence of the death of Carrie, the beloved wife of Mr. Samuel M. Wilkinson (proprietor of the SPECTATOR), of inflammation of the stomach—which sad event took place at her house in Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico, on the morning of the date above mentioned.  She leaves three children—two girls and a boy.  The eldest is five years of age, the youngest under one year.  The deceased was of Spanish descent.  About four years ago she came to this country with her husband, and resided in Mansfield two years.  In this time she acquired a very fair knowledge of the English language, and could read and write with astonishing facility.  In the literature of her own language, and that of France and Italy, she was well versed.  During her stay with us she formed a strong attachment for American institutions, and in every letter, since her return to Mexico, she expressed a longing to come back and make this her home.  The bereaved husband will have the sympathy of all in his sudden affliction.

Elizabeth B. Mason Obituary

Mansfield Herald, November 11, 1880

DIED.

WILKINSON—At Monroeville, November 3d, of chronic bronchitis, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Wilkinson, relict of the late James W. Wilkinson.  Her remains were interred at Mansfield.


The funeral of Mrs. James D. Wilkinson, who died in Monroeville on Wednesday last, took place Saturday, at 1 P. M., from the residence of her son, Edward Wilkinson, Jr., 142 West Bloom street.


The members of the family of the lately deceased Elizabeth B. Wilkinson desire to return thanks, through the columns of THE HERALD, to the kind friends that rendered aid, on the occasion of the funeral, on Saturday last.  They shall ever be held in grateful remembrance.

Richland Shield and Banner, Saturday, November 27, 1880

[From the Monroeville Spectator.]

Death of Mrs. Elizabeth Wilkinson

Eighteen years ago the writer of this laid his father in the cemetery at Mansfield, and last Saturday the same sad duty devolved upon him to follow his mother to her long home.  One year ago last she moved to Monroeville, with her two daughters and grandchild.  For many years she was troubled with a bronchial affection, but it was only within the past few months that it gave her any serious trouble.  Her lungs were also affected, and breathing became a difficult matter.  The best medical skill only sufficed to give her temporary relief, and she sank gradually, until at five o’clock last Wednesday evening, she sank into unconsciousness and died without a struggle.  The funeral took place on Saturday afternoon, from the residence of her son, E. Wilkinson jr., at Mansfield, Ohio, the former home of the deceased.  Our mother was one of the best of women—at least she appeared so to us.  She may have had her faults.  Others may have seen them, but to us they were imperceptible.  Her household was the perfection of neatness, and to insure the comfort of her children she often sacrificed her own.  Now that she is in the grave, the remembrance of the countless acts of kindness she did for us, some of which, we fear, were not appreciated as they should have been, strikes our heart with a bitter pang of regret, which we feel is but futile.  A mother’s love who can measure?  A mother’s love who can fathom?  Father and sister and brother may be snatched away, but it is the mother that stands closer than either of these to the hearts of her children.  Our mother lived to see her children grow up to manhood and womanhood.  The eldest son—formerly editor of this paper—is now in Mexico; one son is in Mansfield; one daughter in Cleveland, and a son and two daughters here.  To go home daily and see familiar objects with which she was once so closely identified, and then to realize that she is gone forever, is indeed hard to bear.  Time will at least soften our grief, but it will not obliterate the memory of her love for us.  She has solved the great mystery of this Hereafter, which to us is a sealed book, and in that better world (which now we see but through the eyes of faith) we hope she is joined to the loved ones who have gone before.

[written by William H. H. Wilkinson]

Cecelia Emma Wilkinson Obituary

Mansfield Daily Shield, July 1, 1892

Died, at Cleveland, O., June 29th, Mrs. Celia E. Wright, wife of W. B. Wright.  Funeral Sunday afternoon from the residence of Edward Wilkinson, No. 78 West Bloom street, this city.  The time will be announced in the churches.

Samuel M. Wilkinson Obituary

Mansfield Daily Shield, Thursday, July 5, 1900

The body of Samuel Wilkinson, who died at his home in Monroeville, will be brought here this afternoon at 4:36 for burial.  It will be taken to the home of Edward Wilkinson on West Bloom street.  The funeral will be held some time Friday.

Mansfield News, July 7, 1900

SAMUEL M. WILKINSON.

Former Well Known Citizen Who Died at Oberlin July 4.

The Oberlin News, of July 6, contains the following sketch of the late Samuel M. Wilkinson, whose funeral was held here Friday afternoon:  Samuel M. Wilkinson, of the hardware firm of Wilkinson & Watson, died on the Fourth of July, 1900, at his home, 153 East College street, of apoplexy, after an illness of four days.  He was stricken Sunday morning, but was conscious up to Monday noon, when he sank into a comatose condition which continued till his death, which came at 3:50 Wednesday afternoon.  His remains were taken to Mansfield, his former home, Thursday afternoon, the funeral taking place Friday afternoon from the residence of his brother, Edward Wilkinson.  The deceased was born in Cincinnati in 1837, and was therefore in the 63d year of his age.  He received his education in Mansfield, and when sixteen years old had an offer of a position in the ticket office of the Sandusky, Mansfield and Newark railroad (now known as the B. & O.), of which his uncle, John R. Robinson, was superindendent.  He held various positions until the breaking out of the civil war, when he went into the three months’ service, his regiment doing duty in West Virginia.  After being mustered out, his uncle offered him a position with a silver-mining company in Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico, which he held for twenty-seven years.  He married a Spanish lady there, who returned with him to the United States in 1875.  In 1877 they went back to Batopilas, where she died shortly afterward, leaving three children—two girls and a boy.  Mr. Wilkinson left Mexico in 1891 and came to Geneva, Ashtabula county, where he bought property.  In 1894 he came to Oberlin and, with M. J. Watson, opened a hardware store in Carpenter’s block, on Main Street, afterward moving across the street into the new Gilhrist block.  Mr. Wilkinson leaves two brothers, two sisters, two daughters (Mrs. John Beckwith, of Oberlin, and Mrs. Charles Beckwith, of Lorain) and one son, now a student in Oberlin College.  Mr. Wilkinson was quiet and unassuming in demeanor, an extensive and intelligent reader of standard authors, methodical and fair in business matters, and uniformly affable in his intercourse with all with whom he came in contact.

Isabella N. Wilkinson Obituary

The Weekly News, January 3, 1907

Wilkinson.

Miss Belle Wilkinson, formerly of Mansfield, later resident of Oberlin, died there Sunday.  The body will be brought to this city Tuesday for burial.  The deceased was born in this city and resided here until in the 70's and was a teacher in the public schools under the earlier years of the superintendency of the late John Simpson.  Two brothers, Edward Wilkinson, of this city, Harry Wilkinson, of Oberlin, and Mrs. Clara Payne, wife of Dr. William Payne, of Sutton's Bay, Mich., survive her.

William Henry Harrison Wilkinson Obituary

The Mansfield News, Tuesday, March 17, 1914

WILKINSON.

William Henry Harrison Wilkinson was born at Lexington, Richland county, Oct. 6, 1840, and died Monday at 4:30 p. m. at the home of his brother, Edward Wilkinson, 219 West Fifth street, after an illness of three weeks.  When a few months old, the deceased came here with his parents.  He graduated from the local schools in 1855.  He then learned the printer trade with J. Y. Glessner, then proprietor of The Shield and Banner.  Later he worked on the Mansfield Herald and then left Mansfield.  He was a former editor of the Fostoria Review, Monroeville Spectator and Geneva Free Press.  He also worked on the Oberlin News.  For four or five years he resided in Cleveland and came to Mansfield about three years ago and made his home with his brother.  The funeral will be held Wednesday at 2 p. m. from the home of Edward Wilkinson, conducted by Rev. J. J. Wyeth.  The funeral and burial will be private.

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